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What Athletes, Ascetics, and Parents Share in Common

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Ben Christenson
Apr 21, 2026
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“It’s a 2,000 meter race and I remember not being able to feel my legs, starting to black out, and having to concentrate on not blacking out from exhaustion. And the air going down my esophagus was on fire, tasted like blood and metal in your throat. And that was at 800 meters.”

That’s how Scott Galloway described rowing crew at UCLA. The moral of the st…

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